Whiggery is a grand thing when it keeps the Scarlet Woman on her ain seven hills.

Scotland's hills and braes can do weel, weel without her." This speech gave the laird time to think.

It would never do to quarrel with Tallisker.

If he should set himself positively against his scheme of sending his clan to Canada it would be almost a hopeless one; and then he loved and respected his friend.

His tall, powerful frame and his dark, handsome face, all aglow with a passionate conviction of right, and an invincible determination to do it, commanded his thorough admiration.